Cindy Carpenter was faced with a challenge 10 years ago. Her daughter, Cortney, was getting ready to “age out” of special education in the public school system. Cortney was born with a neurologically based disability that has no specific diagnosis. “The government will educate you up until the age of 22, then at that point…
Many businesses have started with owners daring to try things a different way – and IrisPR Software is no exception. “I was having challenges and wanted to grow my public relations agency [then Ubiquity PR],” says IrisPR CEO and Founder Aly Saxe. “I just felt that we could be much more efficient and use our…
Colette Jobin was working 12½-hour shifts as a nurse in the NICU and raising three young children as a single mom when she realized – this is not going to work! She was working on patients’ charts thinking, “I am going to have to give this up!” when a fellow nurse named Colleen, out of…
Lauren Hendeles started her career as a journalist, working as an editor for AOL and the Huffington Post. While she enjoyed writing, she also realized that journalism didn’t have the objectivity for which she was trained and that most articles today are motivated by the “click” – not the story itself. “I started exploring different…
The human race faces a serious conundrum. It is estimated that by 2040, we will need to feed more than 9 billion people and there is a growing concern about sustainability and availability of animal-based protein sources. While some companies are looking into edible insects like crickets, Yoram Yerushalmi and his partners at Israeli startup…
People often ask Gelie Akhenblit if she’s fearless. As a CEO, entrepreneur, mentor and single mother, Gelie seems to juggle a million things at once, and still flourishes. In 2008, she took a leap of faith, quit her corporate job, and launched NetworkingPhoenix.com, now a successful online platform and calendar of networking events across the…
“And they shall beat their swords into plough shares, and their spears into pruning hooks.” (Isaiah 2:4) In a very 21st century iteration of Isaiah’s prophesy, Mark Seifert, MD is the first cardiologist in Arizona to take an electromagnetic technology, invented to improve the aim of Israeli fighter pilots, and use it instead to save…
At the soft opening of their newest concept restaurant, Pomelo, Ken and Lucia Schnitzer mingled with the diners. They visited each table, greeting their guests with hugs, and it felt more like an intimate dinner party than the beginnings of the hottest new dining ticket in town. But that is how Ken and Lucia approach…
David Hazan is a man on a mission. His goal: to save lives on the road by getting drivers to change one habit – put down our cell phones. Period. And the 34-year-old entrepreneur has created a mobile app that succeeds in doing just that, one distracted driver at a time. According to a 2013…
The tradition of matchmaking can be traced back to the origin of life itself with G-d being the ultimate shadchan (matchmaker) behind the union of Adam and Eve. Those traditions carried forward to the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe and Russia, with the height of matchmaking occurring during the Middle Ages. The shadchan was essential…
